Justin is a second year master’s candidate at the University of Southern California, specializing in homeland security and statistical risk analysis. In 2009, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Davis with bachelor degrees in both political science and history. In addition to his studies, Justin is an avid tennis player who enjoys all [...]

Samantha is a second year masters student in International Relations at Yale University. Studying economic policy and development with a regional focus Latin America. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Notre Dame. After graduation, she was awarded a Fulbright Research and Study grant to Mexico to pursue an ethnographic research [...]

Rheanne is a master’s student in International Relations at Yale University, focusing on Middle East politics. She received bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Philosophy from Boston University, and studied at Oxford University for her final year of her undergraduate degree. At Oxford she wrote separate theses on the Middle East Peace Process and the political [...]

Rafi Chaudhury is a senior at Middlebury College, majoring in Political Science and Economics. His primary academic interest is in the field of economic research, particularly within the context of economic development, financial crises and comparative democratization. His work on European economic issues has been published at Europeanomics.info, a faculty-run pedagogical project at Middlebury. His experience [...]

Bécquer Medak-Seguín, a Spanish Literatures and Cultures major and Latin American Studies minor at Whitman College, is a film critic, contributing editor, and former columnist on international affairs for the Whitman Pioneer. He has written for the Anchorage Daily News and was editor-in-chief of the Alaska Pacific University Journal. Bécquer’s scholarship has led to several forthcoming [...]

Before coming to Indiana University to pursue his Ph.D. in Political Science with a focus on Comparative Politics and International Relations, Kevin completed his B.A. and M.A. in International Affairs at Murray State University (in Murray, KY) and Washington University in St. Louis, respectively. While earning his M.A. at Washington University, Kevin worked in both St. [...]